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  • John Muse

    John Muse writes criticism, makes experimental films, paintings, and installation works, and teaches visual studies at Haverford College.

  • Sharon Garbe

    Sculptor, writer, geometry enthusiast, admirer of small mammals.

  • Katie Dillon Low

    I'm crazy.

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    Oil painter, art writer and guest curator in Eastern PA. elizabethjohnsonart.com. Paintings that mix distorted, jumbled images of people, landscapes and seascapes.

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    Art Historian, Arts Administrator, Curator, Writer

  • Patrick Coué

    hello in the making

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    Richard Torchia is an artist and an independent curator.

  • Tom Csaszar

    Tom Csaszar is an artist, writer, and educator based in Philadelphia for forty years.

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    Virginia Maksymowicz is a sculptor and arts writer who lives and works in Philadelphia. She has written for Philadelphia Artblog, Sculpture Magazine, Leonardo, Art & Artists, and many other publications.

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